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TURNIPS FOR WINTER USE 



PHE main sowing of these is generally made during 

 - the first week in July and they are grown and culti- 

 vated very much like winter radishes. Plants are thinned 

 out to stand four inches apart in the row which are gener- 

 ally put two feet apart. 



Perhaps the most widely grown sort in cultivation is 

 Red or Purple Top White Globe which forms handsome, 

 globe-shaped roots in seventy-five to eighty days from 

 date of sowing seeds. Properly grown roots average 

 three to three and a half inches in diameter and have pure- 

 white skin with red and purplish blotches around the top. 

 White Egg is of elongated shape and slightly earlier, but 

 does not keep so well. Pomeranian White Globe grows 

 slightly larger, but has coarser flesh and is later. Long 

 White Cozvhorn is a still later sort grown extensively for 

 cattle feed. The flesh of all these is white. The most 

 popular yellow-skinned and yellow-fleshed sorts are 

 Golden Ball and Yellow Aberdeen. 



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